Awww, Monday's.. these days are when you wake up, with a groggy head, puffy eyes and you're thinking to yourself.. "if only I could have 2 more hours of sleep".. that combined with the fact that you are dealing with a child that is "busy" being night time potty trained and you are in for one heck of a Monday morning feeling!
Dillon has been "nappy free" for about 2 weeks now.. sounds great dosnt it? NAPPY FREE.... I will say it again.... NAPPY...........FREE!! Sounds like freedom to any mother, no more nappies.. no more buying the nappies... no more handling dirty nappies. Nope, what this means is having to change your childs bedding almost every single night in the early hours of the morning and having to wash your childs entire bedding almost every single day and then your child still looks at you like a lost puppy and says "Im sorry mommy, it was only an accident!" There it is - another guilt trip, cause us mothers dont have enough of those already! Of course its an accident, cause I really dont see any one wanting to wee in their own beds on purpose! So, I smile and give her big hugs and tell her how much I love her and how much Im proud of her for trying and we go over the procedure AGAIN about if you feel you need to wee-wee, then GO.. go to the loo, please... go to the loo and if you dont want to go alone, PLEASE call mommy or daddy, we really dont mind going with you! I know what you are thinking.. why are we not taking her in the middle of the night, truth be told.. we are! We take her before her bedtime, again when we go to bed and then... thats where the wheels fall off. You see, we are very shelfish parents, we LOVE our sleep, we crave it, we need it, we can not function as normal human beings with out it. Maybe it stems from having the girls so close together and being sleep deprived for so long, that we try to hold onto as much sleep as we can possibly get. Jean does however wake up in those early hours of the morning to go check on her and thats when I get woken up to change bedding. The accidents happen always when we are in our REM stage of sleep, the good sleep, the sleep that actually matters to a parent. But thats life! We will carry on, doing what we do and cleaning up the accidents and if we are lucky, just as Dillon gets it right, we can start all over again with Raiden :)
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